Ezekiel 12:13 - Exposition

My net also will I spread, etc. Compare the same image in Lamentations 1:13 . The prediction of Lamentations 1:12 is reiterated with emphasis. Zedekiah shall be in Babylon, yet shall not see. Josephus ('Ant.,' 10. 7.2; 8.2) relates that Ezekiel sent this prophecy to Jerusalem, and that Zedekiah, finding an apparent discrepancy in the words that he should not see Babylon, and those of Jeremiah ( Jeremiah 32:4 ; Jeremiah 34:3 ), hardened himself in his unbelief. There is no reason, however, for supposing that Josephus had access to any other records than the books of the two prophets, and his narrative looks rather like an imagined history of what might have been.